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Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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Waltraud M. Kriven
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Office 105 Materials Science and Engineering Building
Telephone 217-333-5258 Fax 217-333-2736
Mail Address Department of Materials Science and Engineering
1304 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801
- Plenary speaker at Int. Conf. on Solid to Solid Phase Transformations, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA (1981)
- Guest lecturer at Int. Conf. on Martensitic Transformations (ICOMAT), Summer Course on Martensitic Transformations, Leuven, Belgium, (1982).
- Plenary speaker at Advanced Ceramics II Lecture Meeting, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, (1986)
- Plenary speaker at the Int. Ceramic Conf. and Workshop on Transformation Toughening, Sydney, Australia (1988)
- Brunauer Award, American Ceramic Society (1988, 1991)
- Plenary speaker at Int. Conf. on Solid to Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials ’94, Pittsburgh, USA (1994)
- Plenary speaker at Austceram ‘94, Int. Ceramics Conference, Sydney, Australia (1994)
- Plenary speaker at Festive Symposium in honor of Professor T. Mitsuda of the Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan (1995)
- Plenary speaker at Int. Conf. on Martensitic Transformations (ICOMAT 95), Lausanne, Switzerland (1995).
- Fellow, American Ceramic Society (1995)
- Invited speaker at Symposium to honor Professor Jack Christian on his 70th birthday, University of Oxford, UK, (1996)
- Sabbatical Scholar, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Institute for Crystallography and Applied Mineralogy, Munich, Germany (1997)
- Plenary speaker at Int. Workshop on Oxide/Oxide Composites, Irsee, Germany, (1998)
- Plenary speaker at Australian Int. Conf. on Ceramics (Austceram 2000), Sydney Australia, (2000)
- Plenary speaker at Int. Conf. on Materials Science and Technology, Cairo, Egypt (2001)
- Guest lecturer giving a two-day seminar series at Seoul National University, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul, Korea, (2002)
- Plenary speaker at National Workshop on Sample Environments for Neutron Scattering Experiments (SENSE), Tallahassee, Florida, USA, (2003)
- Plenary speaker at NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Fuel Cell Technologies: State and Perspectives, Kyiv, Ukraine, (2004)
- Plenary speaker at First Workshop of the Korea Basic Science Institute, High Voltage Electron Microscope User Workshop, at Daejeon, Korea, (2004)
- Academician, World Academy of Ceramics (2004)
- Elected to Strathmore's Who's Who, lifetime member (2005)
- Elected to America's registry of Outstanding Professionals, lifetime member (2005)
- Chair of the Engineering Ceramics Division, American Ceramic Society (2005-2006)
- Member of the Int. Editorial Advisory Committee, Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society (2000-present)
- Plenary speaker at Geopolymer 2005, Int. Conf. on Geopolymers, St. Quentin, France, (2005)
- Plenary speaker at Int. Workshop on Geopolymers, Perth, WA, Australia (2005)
- Plenary Speaker at 3rd Int. Conf. on Alkali Activated Materials, Prague, Czech Republic (2007)
- Plenary Speaker at 4th Int. Conf. on Advanced Materials (ICAMP-4), Sydney, Australia (2007)